Long Distance Sculling series -
Series cancelled in 2020 due to Covid
On Monday 28 September 2020, the Northern Rowing Council announced that it felt unable to continue with the two remaining Long Distance Sculling series competitions for 2020. . They were to have been a combined LDS/SBH at Tyne on 10 October and South Hylton on 24 October. They were cancelled. The other four competitions in the series had progressively dropped out in previous weeks.
Competition |
Day and date |
Tees LDS/SBH |
Sat 3 October 20 |
Tyne LDS/TU SBH |
Sat 10 October 20 |
Wansbeck LDS/SBH |
Sat 17 October 20 |
South Hylton LDS |
Sat 24 October 19 |
Berwick LDS |
Sat 31 October 20 |
Durham LDS/ASBH |
Sat 7 November 20 |
The 2021 series
The page for the 2021 series is here.
Getting in touch
Queries about all aspects of the LDS series including entries and results should go to Dan Lockey at lds@nerowing.com. Any questions specifically to do with how this page works (or not) should be directed to Colin Percy at secretary@nerowing.com.
This page updated 08-
Series background
The Northern Rowing Council, with the help of host clubs, runs the Long Distance Sculling (LDS) series every autumn. Usually we aim to have six competitions over six consecutive weekends.
The LDS series is for sculling boats only -
Usually there are associated but independent Small Boats Head (SBH) competitions with sculling and sweep in the afternoon on four of the six days. For information showing how the series normally runs, the results and a full report of the 2019 series and its individual competitions are here.
2020 programme
For the record the 2020 programme was to have been: